scholarly journals Think-Aloud Protocol (TAP) Analysis: An Investigation of Writing Assessment Tool for High School Teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 55-71
Author(s):  
Andik Nur Wijaya ◽  
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Suparno Suparno ◽  
Slamet Supriyadi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Writing Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Assessment Procedure ◽  
Think Aloud ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Think Aloud Protocol ◽  
Process Understanding ◽  
Teachers Professional Development

Teachers experience particular difficulties in learners’ writing activities for academic purposes. Teachers should concern more about this phenomenon. One of the strategies to explore this fact is by determining an assessment procedure to encompass the writing direction during the learners’ writing process. Understanding learners’ difficulties and defining direction to solve those difficulties are significant for teachers to develop writing direction. This research applied a case study method to investigate the directional concern that Indonesian high school teachers’ arranged derived from a think-aloud protocol (TAP) assessment, which the researcher suggested. The researcher interviewed three Senior High School teachers about the argumentative writing performance of their three learners by applying the TAP Assessment. After the TAP assessment, the teachers’ directional concerns contained more elements related to the process of writing, even though they still ignored several significant processes. The inference result was that writing teachers’ professional development gave directional plans so that teachers were facilitated to work on writing assessment data thoroughly for the whole organization aspects.

scholarly journals Perilaku Kerja Guru Bimbingan Konseling Laki-Laki dan Perempuan Tingkat SLTA di Jakarta

Humaniora ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Esther Widhi Andangsari
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Communication Behaviour ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Male Teacher ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Government

Article presented performance behaviour among high school teachers in Jakarta, especially in their roles as counsellor based on the government’s qualification and competences, especially in their empathy and persuasion. The research also wants to see the difference between male and female teachers’ behaviour as counsellor, so that the schools are more serious in selecting and developing their teacher counsellor. Using DISC assessment tool for 68 teachers, consisting of 14 male and 54 female teachers, it is indicated that 26,47% of them meet the government qualification, those are both empathy and persuasion qualifications. Empathy qualification is possessed by male and female teachers, even male teacher is more persuasive than male teacher who have dominant communication behaviour. In general, the research presents 13 behaviour styles.

Filipino senior high school teachers’ continuing professional development attitudes: Exploring the roles of perceived demand amid a national education reform

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-76
Author(s):  
Allan B. I. Bernardo ◽  
Barbara Wong-Fernandez ◽  
Mateo D. Macalaguing Jr ◽  
Romel C. Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
High School ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Career Planning ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Teachers Professional Development

The professional development of teachers is an important component of quality standards for any educational system, as teachers’ engagement in continuing professional development (CPD) activities are related with aspects of professional commitment and satisfaction. In this study, we explore how perceived demands of a national educational reform in the Philippines are associated with different indicators of senior high school teachers’ professional development. A survey of 289 teachers recruited to teach senior high school for the first time in the Philippines indicated that perceived demand was not associated with CPD participation intentions, but that perceived demand related to job requirement and to career planning had different associations with attitudes towards CPD. These different associations can be viewed as adaptive responding to the uncertainties in their changing work environment. The implications for conceptualizing the context of teachers’ professional development, and the external factors that strengthen or weaken teachers’ positive attitudes towards CPD are discussed.

Analysis of Expert Readers in Three Disciplines

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Shanahan ◽  
Timothy Shanahan ◽  
Cynthia Misischia
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Think Aloud ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Reading Behaviors ◽  
Think Aloud Protocols

The purpose of this study is to describe educationally relevant differences in literacy use among three subject-matter disciplines—history, chemistry, and mathematics. These analyses were drawn from an investigation of the teaching of disciplinary literacy in high schools. The purpose of the overall project was to improve the literacy-teaching preparation in a secondary preservice teacher education program, but this study sought to identify specific features of literacy and literacy use only in the three disciplines. It is the first expert-reader study to consider the reading of mathematicians and chemists (though other kinds of scientists have been studied in this way). To conduct this investigation, three teams were assembled, one for each discipline, including two disciplinary experts (historians, chemists, and mathematicians), two teacher educators who prepare high school teachers to teach those disciplines, and two high school teachers from each discipline. Using think-aloud protocols, transcripts from focus group discussions, a recursive process of member checking, and a cross-disciplinary consideration of reading approaches identified in each discipline, the study identified important differences in the reading behaviors of the six disciplinary experts. Although much of the work was based on think-aloud protocols and interviews with the disciplinary experts, the teachers and teacher educators participated with the disciplinary experts in focus-group discussions of the protocols, and their reactions and insights helped the disciplinary experts to articulate their approaches and to determine implications of the reading behaviors that were observed. Differences were evident in sourcing, contextualization, corroboration, close reading and rereading, critical response to text, and use of text structure or arrangement and graphics.

scholarly journals The FAST VIP (First Aid for Severe Trauma “Virtual” in-Person) Educational Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 951-957
Author(s):  
Craig Goolsby ◽  
Keke Schuler ◽  
Raphaelle Rodzik ◽  
Nathan Charlton ◽  
Vidya Lala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Violence ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Severe Trauma ◽  
First Aid ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Direct Pressure

Introduction: Trauma is the leading cause of death for young Americans. Increased school violence, combined with an emphasis on early hemorrhage control, has boosted demand to treat injuries in schools. Meanwhile, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has made educating the public about trauma more difficult. A federally funded high school education program in development, called First Aid for Severe Trauma™ (FAST™), will teach students to aid the severely injured. The program will be offered in instructor-led, web-based, and blended formats. We created a program to prepare high school teachers to become FAST instructors via “virtual” in-person (VIP) instruction. We used a webinar followed by VIP skills practice, using supplies shipped to participants’ homes. To our knowledge, no prior studies have evaluated this type of mass, widely distributed, VIP education. Methods: This study is a prospective, single-arm, educational cohort study. We enrolled a convenience sample of all high school teachers attending FAST sessions at the Health Occupations Students of America–Future Health Professionals International Leadership Conference. Half of the participants were randomized to complete the Stop the Bleed Education Assessment Tool (SBEAT) prior to the webinar, and the other completed it afterward; SBEAT is a validated tool to measure learning of bleeding competencies. We then performed 76 VIP video-training sessions from June–August 2020. The FAST instructors assessed each participant’s ability to apply a tourniquet and direct pressure individually, then provided interactive group skills training, and finally re-evaluated each participant’s performance post-training. Results: A total of 190 (96%) participants successfully applied a tourniquet after VIP training, compared to 136 (68%) prior to training (P < 0.001). Participants significantly improved their ability to apply direct pressure: 116 (56%) pre-assessment vs 204 (100%) post-assessment (P < 0.001). The mean score for the SBEAT increased significantly from pre-training to post-training: 2.09 with a standard deviation (SD) of 0.97 to 2.55 post-training with a SD of 0.72 (P < 0.001). Conclusion: This study suggests that a webinar combined with VIP training is effective for teaching tourniquet and direct-pressure application skills, as well as life-threatening bleeding knowledge. VIP education may be useful for creating resuscitative medicine instructors from distributed locations, and to reach learners who cannot attend classroom-based instruction.

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